Solid. Appreciate the different rap styles within the group. Not exactly sure what differentiates Power In Numbers from any of J5's other albums for inclusion on the list but it's as good as any of them so why not?
Genre Impact: Low
Decade Impact: Low
Absolute Impact: Low
Listenability: High
Re-listenability: Very High
Interesting and funky. Last couple songs get repetitive.
Relative (to decade) Impact: Low
Absolute Impact: Low
Listenability: Medium
Repeat Listenability: Low
I've listened to this album at least monthly since it came out in 1985. Still sounds fresh, relevant, and insightful after 40+ years, incredible. One of the strongest albums in modern music IMO.
Relative (to decade) impact: Med
Absolute impact: High
Listenability: High
Re-listenability: Very High
Funny how I've listened to their hits my entire life, and based my expectations on that. in fact, I was sure that I had listened to this entire album at some point but I was wrong. This album has a lot more of a "60s popular music" sound than I expected. So much so, that sometimes they even sound like a Rolling Stones clone. But this all collapses into the accretion disk of the black hole that is My Generation, a song breaking so far afield of the standard 60's rock as to behave as a Singularity, opening up a new universe for rock, AND for this band to move on to craft their defining future sound.
Genre impact: Huge
Decade impact: High
Absolute impact: Low
Listenability: High
Relistenability: Low (except My Generation: Very High)
College rock for the college educated? I'm not "against" cerebral music per se, but there has always been something about the Talking Heads that made me question whether it was me? Or was it them? I mean, a LOT of people love them. So I naturally wondered what it was about their musuc that I was missing, while "everyone else" got it. Upon listening to this full album through for the first time, at 52, I think I may have discovered what it is. It's musically appropriate for the era, and unabashedly lyrics for smart people comfortable with abatract concepts, diffuse meanings unascribed to the author and intentionally left to the listener to assemble their own meaning into it. Man, I'm way too tired to do all that.
Genre Impact: Very High (TH is their own genre)
Decade Impact: Medium
Absolute Impact: Low
Listenability: Medium
Relistenability: Low
I really liked what I heard. Listening tobit made me realize I know almost nothing about OG Punk Music. And that is a crying shame. This album will be my stepping stone to it.
Genre Impact: unk.
Decade (Relative) Impact: unk.
Absolute Impact: unk.
Listenability: High
Re-listenability: High
Good blues.
Genre impact: Low
Decade impact: Low
Absolute impact: Low
Listenability: High
Re-listenability: Med
Lots of what would turn out to be hits. Very listenable album, even for me who is not the hugest fan of VM's voice. Impact probably 5/10. Genre impact 6/10.
It transports me to another time and place that I haven't got to yet.
